Blog Posts
about Adobe Photoshop

Adobe announced the newest generation of the Adobe Creative
Cloud, its suite of software and Web-based services for the creative community,
available immediately.

The IT Professional division of Pearson is excited to
align to the announced with a product suite of 8 titles planned for the Creative Cloud (2017 release)
from the world’s greatest authors and series from Adobe Press and Peachpit. The
new products offer training and inspiration to all user levels and cover a
broad range of topics within the Creative Cloud.

In the previous post, I talked a little bit about how the
changes in Camera Raw with CS5 now take the automation of tasks and make them
easier, but what if
you have been using Camera Raw for a while and all you’ve been doing is
working on a file at a time? What if you
don’t know just how much you can
automate right from within Camera Raw?
Let’s take a look at this now.

Sometimes working with multiple assets in a Creative Suite
environment means a lot of hunting and gathering of images. In earlier versions of Adobe® Photoshop®, it was easy
with the File Browser in Photoshop CS.
By the time CS2 came around, the File Browser had disappeared to be
replaced with AdobeBridge. While this was a great addition as it let you
browse and search for other content in a separate application, I always hated
having to leave Photoshop in order to search for things. Thankfully all of this has been changed back
with the inclusion of MiniBridge in Photoshop
CS5. There are a couple of features in
here that I think are really valuable.

As a photographer, I am beyond excited at the new Adobe® Photoshop®
CS5 release. While there are tons of
things that Photoshop gives me, at its core, I am looking to be able to speed
up any work that I do repetitively. In that,
I rely heavily on Adobe Camera Raw to take care of the majority of problems
before I start any touch up editing in Photoshop. Thankfully, Adobe has included some new
features inside of Camera Raw that take the processing of images and make them
even easier.

Whenever we talk about Repousse in Adobe® Photoshop® CS5, it’s
almost always seen as a feature that will allow you to extrude text. While that may be true, it’s important to
note that this feature will let you extrude all sorts of different things, and
it’s up to you to experiment with those things and see how they fit for
you. Let’s go through a couple of
examples of what you could be playing with in Repousse.

Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 has a great new feature called
Bristle Brushes. If you are using a
pressure sensitive tablet (like a Wacom Intuos4) these brushes let you
manipulate how you use them by simply tilting the brush to the left and to the
right. The beauty of these brushes,
however, is that you can also configure them to make special brushes of your
own. Now you can resurrect that Calligraphy
class you so badly wanted to take!

A great change in Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 is the smarter way to be
able to make selections. Photoshop CS5
now offers things like Smart Radius and Color Decontamination- two tools that
will take all of the pain about making selections. Let's explore that now.

The biggest difference between Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 and the
Extended version is the inclusion of 3D into the program. In CS4, you were able to turn a graphic into
a 3D postcard, allowing you to manipulate the element in 3D space, but the
options were very limited when it came to text.
Photoshop CS5 Extended now comes with a new feature called Repousee –
the ability to turn text into a 3D shape.
I think once people get over their initial fears of what 3D is, they are
really going to start picking up this technology and doing some cool stuff with
it.

We spent some time in another post talking about how cool it
is that Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 allows you to create Flash Panels to launch from inside
of the application. These panels can be
made with Configurator 2, available at the Adobe website. In an earlier post we made a panel that
allowed us to use specific tools for a retouching workflow. One of the best
changes that they have made with this is the inclusion of WebKit – allowing you
to embed HTML pages with ease inside of the panels. Let’s go ahead and do
something fun now, creating a mobile Twitter client that will run inside of
Photoshop CS5.

The new Content-Aware Fill Feature in Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 is a great way to remove items in a specific image. But did you know that the tool is also great for adding stuff in places where it's missing - namely panoramas? Let’s explore this a little further.

Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 has support for making Flash Panels. These Flash Panels allow you to list all of
the tools and menu options you need, leaving out all of the tools that you
don’t. You can add scripts, menu items,
and even movies. I think it’s a great idea to use these panels to get rid
of all of the extra tools that you see in Photoshop that you don’t use. By hand selecting the tools you want to use,
you can make your workflow fly!